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Comments on "Labour market policies in Denmark: a story of structural reforms and evidence-based policy" by Michael Svarer

Burda, Michael C. - In: Reform capacity and macroeconomic performance in the …, (pp. 99-104). 2015

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Labour market policies in Denmark : a story of structural reforms and evidence-based policy

Svarer, Michael - In: Reform capacity and macroeconomic performance in the …, (pp. 73-98). 2015

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Total work, gender and social norms

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - 2007

countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total … women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market … wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests using U.S. and …

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2004

We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes. Based on Danish data (1998- 2002) from administrative...

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A Danish Profiling System

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael; Hammer, Bo - 2004

We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or she will be unemployed for more than six months from...

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Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel

Eichhorst, Werner - 2006

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than in many other European countries. The paper explains this by institutional factors that affect labor supply, labor demand and matching, i.e. labor market regulation, human...

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Dann waren's nur noch vier ... Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

With the Hartz reforms active labor market policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a streamlined repertoire of active labor...

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The gradual transformation of continental European labor markets: France and Germany compared

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can be explained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core...

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The effect of sanctions on the job finding rate: evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael - 2007

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...

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A statistical programme assignment model

Staghøi, Jonas; Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael - 2007

When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statistical model designed to improve the present...

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